For those who didn’t catch Mythic Quest’s sequence finale when it first debuted final month, there’s an opportunity it’s possible you’ll by no means be capable of see the episode because it initially was.
Shortly after Mythic Quest’s fourth season and its Facet Quest spinoff hit Apple TV Plus, the streamer introduced that it was cancelling the sequence. The information got here as a shock given how “Heaven and Hell” — the open-ended finale — implied that Mythic Quest may return for a fifth season. And there have been so many unresolved plotlines that the sudden cancellation meant that Mythic Quest would all the time really feel incomplete.
Apple appeared to grasp that final level when it introduced its plan to debut an “updated” version of “Heaven and Hell” meant to tie up the entire sequence unfastened ends. The episode went dwell at this time, and it does cope with a few of Mythic Quest’s large cliffhangers. However along with dropping the up to date episode, Apple confirmed to The Verge at this time that it has additionally eliminated the unique minimize of “Heaven and Hell” from its platform totally.
You possibly can type of perceive why Apple would wish to direct viewers in the direction of Mythic Quest’s correct ending. However the transfer smacks of revisionist historical past and streamers’ latest behavior of completely disappearing their own content. Apple simply might have left each variations of the episode up and made clear why there have been variations between the 2 of them. Netflix has been dabbling with one thing comparable for Black Mirror’s newest season to make a brilliant point about the Mandela effect. However going that route with Mythic Quest would have meant acknowledging that Apple axed the present with little heads up, which is one thing the corporate in all probability didn’t wish to do.